Anomalies and outages that used to take a roomful of specialists dozens of hours to troubleshoot are now characterized in minutes using Tetration, which is integrated with Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches.
“Tetration gives me 20/20 vision in the data center,” says Eugene Pretorius, CIO of Infrastructure and Security Services, FNB. “It’s the only tool in the world that can show what is happening across the network, applications, and server planes all on one screen.”
The bank has also dramatically improved its cyber defenses thanks to Tetration and a suite of Cisco security products, including Advanced Malware Protection, Identity Services Engine (ISE), Stealthwatch, and Umbrella.
“All of our Cisco security products are tightly integrated, giving us multilayered protection from the core to the edge,” Pretorius says. “Stealthwatch identifies anomalies, ISE immediately quarantines them, and then we use Tetration to get an incredibly detailed picture of what happened and what was affected. In the past, we had to comb through firewalls, hundreds of logs, and dozens of network devices just to get a fraction of the picture.”
As a result, FNB’s malware infection rate has dropped from 9 percent to 0.1 percent.